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xAI

Frontier AI Lab
Founded Jul 2023 (2 years old)HQ: Palo Alto, CAx.ai

Also known as: xAI Corp, X.AI

Grades from external scorecards. We mirror published grades only; per-source methodology lives at the link in each panel header. See the scorecards directory for cross-org comparison.

FLI AI Safety Index

by Future of Life InstitutePublished 2025-12-02Source ↗
Overall:D
Current Harms
F
Existential Safety
F
Governance & Accountability
D
Information Sharing
C
Risk Assessment
D
Safety Frameworks
D+
Grade trajectory (3 waves)
Winter 2025latest
D
Summer 2025
D
December 2024
D-

SaferAI Ratings

by SaferAIPublished 2025-10-01Source ↗
Overall:Very Weak
Risk Analysis and Evaluation
Very Weak
Risk Governance
Very Weak
Risk Identification
Very Weak
Risk Treatment
Very Weak

AI Lab Watch

by Zach Stein-PerlmanPublished 2025-09-01Source ↗
Overall:Very Weak
Risk info sharing
Weak
Misuse prevention
Very Weak
Planning
Very Weak
Risk assessment
Very Weak
Boosting safety research
Very Weak
Scheming risk prevention
Very Weak
Prep for extreme security
Very Weak

Foundation Model Transparency Index

by Stanford CRFMPublished 2025-12-01Source ↗
Overall:14
Agent Protocols
0
AI bug bounty
0
Amount of usage
0
AUP enforcement frequency
0
AUP enforcement process
100
Basic model properties
0
Benchmarked inference
0
Benefits Assessment
0
Capabilities evaluation
100
Capabilities taxonomy
0
Carbon emissions for final training run
0
Change log
100
Classification of usage data
0
Code access
0
Compute hardware for final training run
0
Compute provider
100
Compute usage for final training run
0
Compute usage including R&D
0
Consumer/enterprise usage
0
Crawling
0
Data acquisition methods
0
Data domain composition
0
Data laborer practices
0
Data language composition
0
Data processing methods
0
Data processing purpose
0
Data processing techniques
0
Data replicability
0
Data retention and deletion policy
0
Data size
0
Deeper model properties
0
Detection of machine-generated content
0
Development duration for final training run
0
Distribution channels with usage data
0
Documentation for responsible use
0
Downstream
22.2
Acceptable use policy
60
Accountability
0
Downstream mitigations
40
Impact
0
Model Behavior Policy
75
Post-deployment monitoring
0
Usage data
0
Energy usage for final training run
0
Enterprise mitigations
100
Enterprise users
0
External data access
0
External developer mitigations
0
External products and services
0
External reproducibility of capabilities evaluation
0
External reproducibility of mitigations evaluation
0
External reproducibility of risks evaluation
0
External risk evaluation
0
Feedback mechanisms
0
Foundation model roadmap
100
Geographic statistics
0
Government commitments
0
Government use
0
Instructions for data generation
0
Intermediate tokens
100
Internal compute allocation
0
Internal product and service mitigations
100
Internal products and services
0
Licensed data compensation
0
Licensed data sources
0
Misuse incident reporting protocol
0
Mitigations efficacy
0
Mitigations taxonomy
0
Mitigations taxonomy mapped to risk taxonomy
0
Model
16.7
Capabilities
25
Model cost
0
Model dependencies
0
Model access
0
Model information
0
Model Mitigations
0
Model objectives
0
Release
50
Model response characteristics
100
Risks
0
Model stages
0
Model theft prevention measures
0
New human-generated data sources
0
Notice of usage data used in training
0
Open weights
0
Organization chart
0
Oversight mechanism
0
Permitted and prohibited users
100
Permitted, restricted, and prohibited model behaviors
0
Permitted, restricted, and prohibited uses
100
Post-deployment coordination with government
0
Pre-deployment risk evaluation
0
Public datasets
0
Quantization
0
Regional policy variations
0
Release stages
0
Researcher credits
0
Responsible disclosure policy
0
Risks evaluation
0
Risks taxonomy
0
Risk thresholds
0
Safe harbor
0
Security incident reporting protocol
0
Specialized access
0
Synthetic data purpose
0
Synthetic data sources
0
System prompt
100
Terms of use
100
Top distribution channels
100
Train-test overlap
0
Upstream
2.9
Compute
11.1
Data Acquisition
0
Data Processing
0
Data Properties
0
Methods
0
Other resources
0
Usage data used in training
0
Users of internal products and services
0
Versioning protocol
0
Water usage for final training run
0
Whistleblower protection
0